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"Boom!" When a shell from Jin Bing hit the city of Yangzhou, the whole south of the city reached the wharf by the Yangtze River. The refugees who had spent the whole night eating and sleeping in the wild in the ten miles were like a pot of boiling water.

Because the golden soldiers have appeared on the east and west sides of the Yangzhou wharf, a large number of golden soldiers are running around, which means that the later Jin army has been deployed, and at the same time, the golden soldiers have enough troops to encircle Yangzhou city.

People crowded each other and ran towards the river in a panic, but the criss-cross waterways on both sides of the east and west always restricted the crowd to a narrow area.The people cried for their fathers and mothers, eager to run.

The lost children, the women who kneel down and beat their hands and feet, the old farmers leading the cows, the old ladies with bound feet... Suffering always brings serious disasters to this nation.

The rich and the powerful are gone, and they take the boats with them in the end, and very few people turn the boats around to help these poor people of the same race.

On the bank of the Yangtze River, thousands of helpless people knelt on the bank in disappointment and pain. They could only look at the river and sigh, and on the other side of the river was a large sail of princes and court officials going down the river.

The prince received a letter written by Shi Kefa, in which Shi Kefa told the prince: Do not ascend the throne; return to Nanjing City and stick to it; insist on the study of sages.

The prince hugged Shi Xiangyun and wept bitterly. He didn't get the support he wanted from Shi Kefa, but he got a bunch of suggestions that he couldn't do.

Liu Zongzhou continued to persuade Zhu Cihuang to go south. The situation in Yangzhou was getting worse and worse. Standing on the bank of Zhenjiang, he could see the Tazi soldiers in the distance with his own eyes.

Both the crown prince and Liu Zongzhou saw the appearance of Jin Bing with binoculars, the ferocious face, the thick armor and a lightning rod erected high on the top of the helmet.

Even Liu Zongzhou saw with his own eyes two golden soldiers promiscuously promiscuous a young girl in broad daylight.Their rude and savage violence almost made Liu Zongzhou pee his pants in fright.

Liu Zongzhou, a great Confucian who tried to persuade people with the theory of saints all his life, couldn't find a word to blurt out in the face of such obscenity.At this moment, he also knew that those impassioned words that he once felt were a bunch of shit.

"Your Majesty, hurry up, let's go south quickly. Once the Jin soldiers cross the river, it will be a disaster." Liu Zongzhou's words were not to persuade the prince at all, but he himself was the first to persuade him.

"I don't want to go, I want to cross the river and kill the Tartars." The prince is more courageous than Liu Zongzhou, and he is also a person who has experienced life and death.

"Your Majesty! You have to think about Daming, think about the Crown Princess." Liu Zongzhou said that he thought about Daming, Zhu Cihong was completely indifferent, but when he mentioned the Crown Princess, Zhu Cihong's heart trembled intermittently.

Standing beside the crown prince was Shi Xiangyun whose face turned pale with fright, without a trace of blood on his face.He could imagine what the consequences would be if the princess was caught by Jin Bing.

"Pass down the order, and the whole army will go south to evacuate Zhenjiang." The prince compromised, and then followed the Donglin Party to throw away all the people in Jiangbei, and sailed eastward.

Liu Zongzhou was even secretly happy that both Shi Kefa and Qian Qianyi had stayed in Yangzhou, and now he had the most say in the entire imperial court.

And if the prince didn't order to evacuate at this time, with the shipping capacity in Zhenjiang he has mastered, if he stayed for one more day and night, at least 20 more people could be saved to cross the river.

Now counting the entire Jiangnan, only this force can save the hundreds of thousands of refugees outside Yangzhou.

Even Zhu Youjian himself never dreamed that the Nanjing court would look like this without him.Except for a few warships provided to Shi Lang by the Baguazhou Shipyard he had carefully built, all civilian ships were looted by Liu Zongzhou, all of which were used by Donglin officials to transport their private property and family members and escaped.

"Hahaha, this is the Ming Dynasty, I really laughed to death."

Outside the city of Yangzhou, Duoduo, who had secretly arrived at the front line, almost laughed out loud at the progress of Jin Bing.Shi Kefa, who didn't know much about military affairs, defended Yangzhou with almost no means of defense. He completely gave up the advantage of the natural waterway outside Yangzhou city, and threw hundreds of thousands of people into the wilderness.

"Send someone to persuade Shi Kefa to surrender, and tell him that if we don't open the city and surrender for a day, our army will stay outside the city for a day." Haoge knew Duoduo's intentions when he came to Yangzhou, and he wanted to take credit.

Shi Kefa's reputation is too great, even surpassing Hong Chengchou.The reason why Da Yuer was able to unite with Dorgon to win the heir apparent was not because of Hong Chengchou's advice behind the scenes!

Everyone now wants to learn from Da Yuer and regain Shi Kefa, a famous person, so that they can use it for themselves.Therefore, they did not storm Yangzhou city for the time being, because of Shi Kefa.

At ten o'clock at noon, an Eight Banners cavalry ran towards Yangzhou City and shot a letter of persuasion with a hard bow.Written by Duoduo himself, the words sincerely express a Jin man's admiration for the famous officials of the Southern Dynasties.

"Hiss!" Standing on the city gate tower, in front of all the golden soldiers, Shi Kefa slowly tore the letter into shreds.Finally, hold it in your hand and scatter it down the city with the wind.

"Things that don't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth." Hauge cursed with a dark face.

"It doesn't matter, the Ming people are hypocritical and just putting on airs. Han Dai, go catch some people and behead them to show Shi Kefa the military power of my Daikin." Duoduo smiled indifferently, as if Shi Kefa's behavior had been expected by him. among.

"My lord, how many are you arresting?" Han Dai was excited, which meant that the beheaded people's property was at his disposal, of course, the more people the better.

"Five thousand to ten thousand." Duoduo said a number casually.

"Okay." Han Dai galloped away happily.

An hour later, a full [-] middle-aged men were tied up with ropes in groups and drove to the city of Yangzhou.These people are not the poorest people, and the clothes on their bodies show that they used to live in a relatively superior life.

It's just that the clothes on each of them were torn out of shape, and they were hung in tatters like strips of cloth. Most of them were covered with wounds, and I don't know how long they had been beaten.

"Hey!" Han Dai grinned from ear to ear, this time he made an unknown amount.

"Tell the warriors, whoever shoots the most people will choose the youngest and most beautiful woman tonight." Han Dai's eyes flashed fiercely, and he had already looked at these Ming people he had just robbed as if they were dead.

"Fire the arrows." One of Han Dai's generals gave an order, and the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners finally shot their first arrows after they arrived in Yangzhou City, and the civilians they shot were counted as their personal military exploits.

These treasures that have already been plundered are rewards for the military exploits of these Eight Banners soldiers.As for the other Han troops, they only contributed to help arrest people and participate in the siege, and did not "kill the enemy", so there is no military merit to speak of.

Routines are always in the hands of the rule makers, and it is better for ordinary people not to believe them.Don't think that being full of the Eight Banners is really invincible.

Many so-called "merits" are behind the blood and sweat of others, and the word plunder has always existed in any era and at any time.

Ten thousand corpses were piled up under the city, and Qian Qianyi's face turned pale with fright. He hid in a house with the excuse of falling on the city wall and was too frightened to go out.

That bloody smell has already permeated the entire Yangzhou City, making people unable to swallow a mouthful of food, even drinking water, they feel the smell of fishy smell.

Shi Kefa sat motionless in his chair. He had finally tasted the harshness of war, and he began to waver in sticking to it for a month.

Chapter 381: Four of Ten Days in Yangzhou

Duoduo was still very patient with Shi Kefa, and would shoot a letter of persuasion into Yangzhou City every day for three consecutive days.Of course, the Jin soldiers also slaughtered [-] people in these three days.

What was tragic outside the city was not only the rolling of human heads, but also countless women who were looted to the camp of the Golden Soldiers and raped by the sun and the moon, as well as many people who hanged themselves to death.

The blood had already stained the small open space outside the city red, and here unexpectedly there were some ergots who volunteered to maintain order. Started to rush at the current "manager".

The most hateful thing is that these people are the first to choose whoever is beheaded every day, so they are the first to get bribes from some people, and all these bribes are dedicated to the golden soldier.

Some people in Yangzhou City have long been silent, they were scared out of their wits by the [-] corpses outside the city.There are more and more people in the city who want to surrender, especially the merchants who are still in the city and some subordinates left by the great salt merchants in Yangzhou.

Three days later, Doduo's patience reached its limit, and he no longer had the patience to play with Shi Kefa any longer; in other words, after these three days, the Jin army had collected the first batch of ships that could cross the river.

"Cabinet, the Tartars have begun their general attack."

"Is it the Tartars or the Han army who are in charge of the siege?" Shi Kefa spent three days in Yangzhou City. During these three days, he couldn't close his eyes at all.

The choice between the righteousness of the family and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people outside the city exhausted the mental strength of this middle-aged man. In three days, Shi Kefa's hair became white and black, his cheeks became thinner, and his face was full of wrinkles. He almost resembled a Like an old man in his dying years.

When he stood in front of the soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou City again, he had to bend over with a walking stick to walk.

"It was Li Chengdong's subordinates who attacked the city."

"Who?" Shi Kefa thought he heard it wrong. Since Zhu Youjian integrated Jiangbei, Daming has rarely heard of high-ranking generals surrendering gold.Liu Liangzuo, who had surrendered gold before, was dealt with by Zhu Youjian without even taking away a battalion of cavalry, and even wiped out [-] elite Jin soldiers.

"It's Li Chengdong, he is leading an army to attack the city." Shi Dewei confirmed again.

"These traitors, Daming's country is really ruined by these people!" Shi Kefa felt a wave of angina, he remembered the previous persuasion and comfort to Gao Jie, he can say that he has seen all the senior generals of the Xuzhou Army , but besides Gao Jie, these people rebelled a lot.

No, it should be said that few warlords in Jiangbei did not rebel.When Shi Kefa thought of this, he suddenly remembered that Hu Maozhen, the first guard of Yangzhou he ordered, was also Gao Jie's subordinate.